The Gatesville State School for Boys

The Gatesville State School for Boys or simply gatesville was a word that conjured up bad thoughts in the hearts and minds of boys all over Texas. A facility in an area of Texas with a 120 year history of perpetrating crimes of physical, sexual, mental and verbal abuse on the throw away kids of Texas. This blog is here to share the state boys story. c/s

Monday, February 16, 2015

Fried Chicken

Most of what can be said about Gatesville is a horror story unless you’re representing the town’s folks defending their little cash cow to government investigative agencies.  The other day I was reminded of how much I enjoyed the Sunday Fried Chicken dinner that was served when I was there, usually with mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, iced tea and a desert. It was truly the best meal of the week. Walking back to Terrace School from chapel on Sunday morning you could smell that chicken frying.  For 2 cigarettes the kitchen boys would throw in an extra piece or send some ‘to go” through the scullery window. I’m pretty sure this isn’t on the current Gatesville menu and rumor has it that the kids in the state schools today don’t get feed as well as we did. Something about fresh food being to expensive since the Fed’s meddling in the states correction business. And it could have just been a small window of time in Gatesville’s history in those crazy Post Morales vs Turman and pre TYC Gatesville facility turn over where the state boys got feed a decent meal on Sunday after chapel.  RIP Father Atwood c/s



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